deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out data points are around the average.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

The low storage levels reflect a sharp deviation from Europe’s energy security strategy, which was drafted four years ago when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine slashed Europe’s fuel supplies and sparked an energy crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Gittens added there had been a "significant deviation" from the expected standards of care and "missed opportunities".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Our visual impression is confirmed by the data: The standard deviation of the HSNSI’s daily values since the beginning of 2025 has been 31% higher than the prior 25 years’ average.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

She’s in her midthirties, with permed blond hair and a slight deviation in her facial symmetry that’s worse when she smiles.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

He had to be in crisis, his deviations in footwork and arm motion analyzed like tanker traffic around the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Relativity seems pretty solid. We haven’t seen any deviations from that,” said Katie Mack, Hawking chair in cosmology and science communication at the Perimeter Institute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

While weather forecasts have been leaning toward warmer than normal, “temperature deviations from normal don’t yet appear sufficient to spur much of a price advance from here,” Ritterbusch & Associates says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The conversation that follows involves more creative coercion than outright job offer, and there are several deviations into the subjects of the ballet, modern fashion, and Japanese mythology.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern